Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:47:28 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed... Message-ID: <20091129194728.00007891@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20091129193018.GA87743@thought.org> References: <1259283983.92302.23.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20091127030601.CAB2C1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> <20091127055757.GA75657@thought.org> <20091127083304.GA8618@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091129193018.GA87743@thought.org>
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0800
Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> { One far, far OT question here: who can explain what dovecot
> is/does? why it even exists? I'm familiar with MTA's, like
> sendmail; likewise with MUA's, like evo, kmail, and mutt.
> It's time to learn another level of complexity, evidently....}
Dovecot is an IMAP/POP3 server - sendmail lets you send mail, dovecot
lets you fetch it from a remote server.
--
Bruce Cran
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